The concern,
now, is that her departure has deflected blame that should be accorded her
uninspired cabinet, particularly the two most senior cabinet ministers, Tom
Marshall (now Premier) and the recently retired Jerome Kennedy.
The truth is
that not just the leader, but the whole Government, suffered a malady whose
symptoms span spinelessness and unbridled pigheadedness.
An isolated electorate,
mad as hell, understands it has the last laugh. They will have their say in a year’s time; but
if this Government wishes to survive the ignominy of history’s dustbin, it will
acknowledge that it is ship-wrecked. It
ought to claim salvage while there is still something to save.
The
electorate is not laughing, at least not now.
It knows that the Dunderdale Government has unleashed an agenda whose
worst parts may be irreversible.
